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CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

February - March 2012

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


Chicago Premiere

HELL AND BACK AGAIN

In 2009, U.S. Marines launched a major helicopter assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Within hours of being dropped deep behind enemy lines, 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris's unit is attacked from all sides. Cut off and surrounded, the Marines fight a ghostlike enemy and experience immense hostility from displaced villagers caught in the middle. Embedded in Echo Company during the assault, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis captures the frontline action with visceral immediacy.

When Sergeant Harris returns home to North Carolina after a life-threatening injury in battle, Hell and Back Again evolves from stunning war reportage to the story of one man's personal apocalypse. With the love and support of his wife, Ashley, Harris struggles to overcome the difficulties of transitioning back to civilian life. An unprecedented exploration of the moving image and a film of uncommon intimacy, Hell and Back Again comes full circle as it lays bare the true cost of war. The result is one of the great recent films about war, a visually arresting and intimately powerful story of soldiers in battle, and at home.

Directed by Danfung Dennis, U.S.A./UK/Afghanistan, 2011, 88 mins. In English, Pashtu and Dari with English subtitles.

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Showtimes:
Fri., Feb. 24 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Feb. 25-26 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Tues.-Thurs., Feb. 28-Mar. 1 at 7 & 9 pm

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